Your Top 3 most rubbish cars you have driven

[User Name 19]

1. 1996 Subaru RS - gota be my worst car by far bumpy ride, turbo lag and a steering lock that causes the wheels to lockup haha.

2. 1978 Toyota Carolla - the gear selctor bearly worked causing me to nearly right off cars as it comes out of gear

3.190E Merc - To Low and not on rims, over 50 bummmpy and rippn the tyres

[_ethrty-Andy_ 2132]

Number 1:

'83 Lada 2104. its my second born, and i love it almost as much as my E30. Rattles at 80, lifts the front wheel off the ground in spirited driving, but the engine does not sease to amaze, on papers its worse than a pfl e30 316 but its actually quite peppy for the weight of the car! Seats are the softest seats ever too. Still rubbish though.

Number 2:

'83 Suzuki SJ410. Learnt to drive in it with its 900cc manual. carbed of course given the era, but extremely capable off road. another peppy engine despite the paper saying otherwise. cut one up with a grinder, and you would not want to roll it, it would just crush.

Number 3:

'00 Mazda MX5. Okay so im sure its a good car and millions of sales world wide would say other wise. but im 6"4'. Nuff said

[Docile 64]

1: '94 nissan sunny. OMFG do i have to elaborate?

2: '81 mitsubishi lancer [ box type] hahaha would move to the other lane on its own in the motorway. past 80km the wind would blow it from side to side.

[39KiwiTouring 2]

Seconded on the AU2, the 3 was better sh*t it had to be, they were a disapointment nothing like the EL.

I hated my shitter, only done 86k when purchased.

[charles28 130]

1: 1984 Nissan Sunny Leprix Turbo Sedan- Blew a headgasket between 2 cylinders on a road trip and on another road trip the distributor failed, so 2x this car left me stuck on the side of the road, and a 3rd time the gearbox failed on me, but luckily one of the gears still worked so I was able to limp it home. thankfully I was an AA member, it was kind of my fault though, I had a T25 Turbo and Intercooler added, was running 16psi boost and had 180hp at the wheels.. lol. The torque steer was dangerous in 1st, 2nd, 3rd gear, and the handling was just plain terrible, I converted the car back to standard before I sold it as I deemd it to be too dangerous.

2. 1980 Leyland Mini 1000, Yeah, I know, classic car icon, but these cars are gutless and have horrible gearboxes and clutch etc, noisy, rattley pieces of crap, you get no respect on the road when you drive one of these, all you get is people overtaking you everywhere and tailgating you, unless you get the Classic Cooper S model its not worth it.

3. 1997 Honda Torneo SIR-T, these cars have a really nasty EPS steering system (Electronic Steering Rack) that neally always fails.. as did mine, was quoted $4000 to repair at Honda.

But the worst thing about this steering system is the lack of feel/feedback you get with it.

The 2Litre Vtec engine makes no low down torque, the car comes in at over 1300kg, but you need the RPM needle over 5000rpm to get it to move, then the RPM limiter kicks in too early.

This was the 1st car I took to a trackday, which was when I learnt how dull the EPS steering system is.

[[email protected] 0]

1. Toyota Rav 4 1993 Automatic.

2. Diahatsu Move 1 Litre 1992

3. Honda Civic 1998 Manual.

Horrid cars.

[Carl 3]

I drove a 90's mazda 323 around manfeild once, had pink fuzzy dice, will never live that one down. Had a 1983 nissan pulsar that wasn't as bad as that.

Owned an 1982 Isuzu Piaza, must've had one fat c**t previous owner as everything on the right hand side broke. Driver window electrics fried, right front ball joint seized, right front sway bar link broke off and made cornering very weird, right front popup headlamp would occasional raise very late, leaked in the right rear quarter window, and numerous other flaws.

1972 Austin 1800 (landcrab), drove one around uni for a couple of months, bright yellow, was literally campus taxi for a while. Wasn't a bad car for it's time, but was sh*t in 1998.

Edited January 29, 2010 by pando

[mrad01 0]

1986 EA Ford Falcon: My father's car. Had the worst handling of any car on the planet. HUGE body roll in the corners. Eventually blew a head gasket after 18 months from new. Crap (but it is an aussie car, so it figures)

2008 Audi S5: Overrated V8 junk. Buttons everywhere, no steering feel, 4wd you can't turn off, bad fuel econony for the power it puts out, no rear passenger leg room. Handing was VERY average for the class of car.

197x Holden Torana with a 350 chev in it: My god - what a hatchet job. My mate owned it - we used to hoon around the backroads near Dargaville. Handled like utter crap, holes in the floor, leaked petrol, steering barely worked and the brakes were shite for a 350 chev powerplant.

[Driftit 2078]

So far the EA Falcon is not getting good reviews in the Handling department. Haha.

[39KiwiTouring 2]

An 86 Falcon was or is an F'r and XF, the EA are useless derby cars one hit wonders and terrible 3 speed auto's when they first came out in 88.

[Driftit 2078]

Oh ok. Well the 85 and 86 ones.

[3series 0]

1st. 1998 Toyota single cab 2.4L diesel - 0-100 in probably 25seconds. It still to this day falls to bits when you touch it. You ask people what year they think it is, generally most say 1980-1985, so only 13-18 years wrong. Still it keeps going, and going, and going... nearly 380,000km's of it.

2nd. Full spec'd 2008 Holden Calais, wow this would be 2nd worst in my opinion, horrible in most facites. Gearchanging was terrible, interior was tacky and peeling even after 1 year on the road. Handled like a pig, as you would expect.

3rd. A certain friends old commodore, underfloor air conditioning by means of rusted floor. :Sthankfully its long gone off the road.

Edited January 29, 2010 by bmw3

[elmarco 56]

1st Mid 90's Nissan Vanette. So light it even made the fleet of Mitsi L300 vans feel solid and planted. Was down right dangerous to drive. Refused to drive them after some students tried to level a tree with one and damn near killed them.

2nd 2004 Buick Century. Everything thats bad about GM North America - sh*t build quality, sh*t handling, uncomfortable interior, all the performance of dead roadkill, and looked like it had been delivered via the local gun range. Absolutely no redeeming features except that it was better than walking from LAX to San Diego... Avis said that "as a frequent flyer, we're upgrading you" from the Corolla or Cavalier or similar I had booked. Wish I had been downgraded to the Geo Metro....

3rd 197x Mk2 Escort Estate. Fantastic handling (for a shitbox) on right hand corners. Left hand corners on the other hand were much more interesting from a "living on the edge" point of view. Gutless, noisy, wildly loose steering, unreliable, leaky, thirsty, and you needed a straw to put any gas into it (such a sh*t design that it refused fuel unless fed very very slowly).

And because I can:

4th 2001 Renault Clio. For a car with less than 20,000 km on the clock it felt like the transmission was about to fall out. Funnily enough another Avis rental, and was much more disappointing than the Fiat Punto/Brava I normally had (which is saying something).

5th 1994 Toyota Corolla (yet another Avis rental). Was reliable enough etc, but was unable to pull a hack on the start line at Bathurst despite numerous attempts. Gutted.

Q: What's the difference between a 4x4 and a rental?

A: There are some places you just can't take a 4x4. And I seem to have rented them all. Moral of the story: Never, ever buy an ex-rental car....

6th 1998 Suzuki TL1000. Technically not a car, but certainly had the weight of one. Very top heavy, and a real stretch even for me (6'2") to ride. Nasty reputation for chewing riders up on fast undulating roads too.

Edited January 29, 2010 by elmarco

[speedyg 16]

1st Fiat 125, bought for $200 in Wellington, serious rust, green moss growing on the carpet, litres of water sloshing around in the boot, if you let go of the steering wheel it would go to full lock! Drove it to the ferry to get across to Picton and then home to Blenheim, chewed out the front tyres in about 25kms. Blew the exhaust clean off when my mate went to pass me in his Datsun 1200.

But it had a recond 1600 twin cam which went nicely in my 124.

2nd Toyota Corona 1985, this thing was stuffed but lasted us for a couple of months while in the UK. broken engine mount so the gear lever had a mind of it's own when accelerating/de accelerating, rust, back door handle broke off, big shimmy at 55mph+. Things just keep falling of this one.

3rd VW beetle 1200 about the only thing this was good at was backfires! Top speed 62mph and awful fuel consumption, probably due to the fact that you had to have your foot welded to the floor at all times.

[mark247 39]

Mazda Eunos - Simply horrible.

Holden VR Commodore - Wouldn't go out of second gear, so had to bounce on the rev limiter everywhere. Then for some reason water went everywhere... for sale at turners.

1990's Subaru Imprezas - It seems to be that everyone I have driven with over 140,000km on them is absolutely rooted.

[antil33t 90]

So far the EA Falcon is not getting good reviews in the Handling department. Haha.

I had to use one for 2 weeks whilst my E30 was being fixed

[Nobimmer 694]

Old POS swift was useless.

Toyota Regius van useless

My current DD E30 is useless

[E30BMA 0]

I can't think of any overly bad cars that i've driven and i would drive up to 10-15 different cars every work day.

Come on Greg, Ill refresh your memory with a couple from work.

1: Citroen BX19 - Collapsed hydrolastic suspension, ran and looked so damn ugly.

2: Suzuki ST90 van -AKA the peanut. - tan brown, horribly small, uncomfortable and rusty.

[fuzyfrog 0]

1)

Late 90's Mitsubishi Diamante

NO feeling in the steering or brakes or anything so you had to hope it would respond every time you cornered

2)

Late 90's Camry Wagon

Ughhhh

3)

"Modded WRX Bro"

Test drove it for a friend once.

Cut springs, Free boost and no front brakes

[39KiwiTouring 2]

The misses had a 1998 daihatsu Terios as a work car and I swear it tried to kill me everytime I drove it, taller than they are long and just dangerous if you have to turn a corner north of 50k per hour.

Don't do it to your self stear clear.

Edited January 29, 2010 by E39KiwiTouring

[tibbs.james 1]

1995 Mazda capella 1800cc auto,

1- had the slowest steering in the world and it felt like it was going to tip over at any sign of a corner let alone the rubbish auto transmission and terr bible handling

2- 1985 Toyota corona FWD pos always had something wrong with it

3- Rover Tom Cat there is one in my driveway and its just horrendous

[bravo 35]

Q: What's the difference between a 4x4 and a rental?

A: There are some places you just can't take a 4x4. And I seem to have rented them all. Moral of the story: Never, ever buy an ex-rental car....

Reminds me of something I read today:

There's a lot of debate on this subject – about what kind of car handles best. Some say a front-engined car; some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car. Nothing handles better than a rented car. You can go faster, turn corners sharper, and put the transmission into reverse while going forward at a higher rate of speed in a rented car than in any other kind. You can also park without looking, and can use the trunk as an ice chest. Another thing about a rented car is that it's an all-terrain vehicle. Mud, snow, water, woods – you can take a rented car anywhere. True, you can't always get it back – but that's not your problem, is it?

[laadeelaa 0]

One to top my list.

A Honda City. I feared for my life. From the minute I sat down in the drivers seat. What a death trap. I also felt extremely embarassed. And a little on the cramped side.

Oh and a Daihatsu Sirion/Sewing Machine.

Edited January 30, 2010 by MS BM

[_ethrty-Andy_ 2132]

[@quoted post]

excellent hahahaha

[ducatiss 1]

1. The Austin A35 ute I had while at school - just managed to fit my trail bike in the back. It's only redeeming feature was that i managed to drive it 30km's on a tin of kerosene after running out of petrol one night.

2. An Austin Allegro 1300 HL (my parents had a sick sense of humour). No redeeming features - 150 km/h flat out with a very long run up. Slow and generally a laughing stock even back in the 1980's. Managed to break the exhaust manifold clean off proving that the thing would in actual fact lay rubber on the road.

3. 1980 Audi 80 GLE. When going actually quite a good little car with great acceleration, handling and speed for the time. However everything mechanical that could go wrong with a car - went wrong with the Audi. Replaced the engine, gearbox, clutch, diff, all hoses, radiator, and numerous other parts. Great car but a real lemon.